Sorry for my absence over the past couple of weeks – I’ve been on deadline, then stay-in-bed sick for most of that time.
Meanwhile: I have an article up on Yale Environment 360 about mountaintop removal coal mining, which I also wrote about earlier this year for the Smithsonian magazine. The Yale piece deals with the recent moves by the Obama administration to crack down on this practice. The thing is, nobody is sure where this is going: it could profoundly change things, or could end up being mostly cosmetic. It depends on how the politics of it play out – we’ll see.
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